Trump’s Labor Pick Is a Break With the Past
Can she deliver for the Teamsters? Plus: B-schools’ minority enrollment, and a visit with the Points Guy.
Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer was endorsed by unions in her unsuccessful reelection campaign.
Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
It seems as if President-elect Donald Trump is picking cabinet appointments for their shock value. But his nominee to lead the Labor Department, as Josh Eidelson writes today, is surprising in a different way. Plus: A look at the first class of business school students after the end of affirmative action, and why the Points Guy says to stay in the game. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up .
In Donald Trump’s first term as president, he filled key labor enforcement posts with almost comically union-repellent types: management-side lawyers who’d helped Ronald Reagan vanquish the air traffic controllers union and challenged the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to address a death-by-killer-whale case at SeaWorld. This time around, Trump is sending a different signal. His pick to lead the Department of Labor is an unusually pro-union Republican whose potential appointment had been urged by the Teamsters union and provoked a coalition of leading business groups to declare itself “alarmed.”